The Saddest Time Ever To Be An American
The president of the United States is lying more than ever (and it was a lot to begin with) and is doing it intentionally.
In June and July, he averaged sixteen false claims a day. On July 5th, the Post found what appears to be Trump’s most untruthful day yet: seventy-six per cent of the ninety-eight factual assertions he made in a campaign-style rally in Great Falls, Montana, were “false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.
As the long arm of the law closes in on him, his behavior and thought processes become more defensive and erratic. When there is bad personal news for him, he creates distractions. He threatens to destroy Iran (for no apparent reason) and then days later says he wants to meet with the president of that country to make peace.
He stands in front of his audiences of devoted lemmings and mocks cancer victims (McCain) and says he will put his 2016 campaign foe in prison. That election was almost two years ago, and Trump has nothing better to do than chant "lock her up" in unison with the misguided cranks that populate his rallies. His latest rally in Florida contained many people advertising their allegiance to an insane alt right conspiracy theory.
The president's spokeswoman stands in front of the assembled media and lies every time. The objections to her daily lying became so constant that the White House has only held three press briefings in the past month. In place of honest information from a White House spokesperson, we get a barrage of 280 character social media messages from the president, the very man who is known to be a proven serial liar.
America's reputation around the world is suffering, Trump has the US in a trade war , our alliances have been put in question, and he gets cozy with despots and murderers.
A new documentary will come out in the next few weeks which will claim that Trump is financially compromised by the Russian mafia. The filmmaker says that Russia has evidence of financial crimes by Trump over the past 20 years and that is what they have over his head.
It is virtually certain that the Special Counsel Robert Mueller is going to return a report recommending that Congress consider impeaching Donald Trump.
The television reality show star Donald Trump is treating our great nation as a plaything. He is either sick in the head or quite evil, there is no other explanation, and about a third of our people are under his malevolent spell.
This is the saddest time ever to be an American, within our lifetimes. The national political order is in total disarray.
And because of the internet and social media , and the ease of spreading untruths, our ability to end the travesty is in question.
QAnon marks the emergence of long-hidden communities of people who want to decide for themselves what the truth is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/03/qanon-meet-a-real-life-believer-in-the-online-pro-trump-conspiracy-theory-thats-bursting-into-view/?utm_term=.489b7f70b0f0
Trump and his legions demand the right to create their own truth. This can only end in disaster.
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Saddest time to be an Amercan only only applies to those progressive leftist liberals that did not get their way in the last election! the rest of us are just dealing with it instead of moaning about it...
seventy-six per cent of the ninety-eight factual assertions he made in a campaign-style rally in Great Falls, Montana, were “false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.
This is far beyond something that is merely a petulant reaction by those who lost the election. Have you called for Trump to resign yet? Or are you just going to "deal with" someone who will lie 75% of the time between now and Nov of 2020? The more people are apathetic about Trump the more we have to question just what America stands for anymore.
Yep, He's playing with people like you and messing up your minds.
Let trump BE TRUMP !
Cheney and Bush annoyed me. Trump I actually hate. Mindless Fox watchers make me sad for humanity.
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"The Saddest Time Ever To Be An American"
Really now !
Maybe for the "Few"....but not the "Majority" !
If the majority supports this travesty, then it truly is the saddest time to be an American.
Didn't the majority vote for Hillary?
Good morning CJ. Unfortunately we both know elections are won by Electoral Vote and not by Popular vote which is the law of the land, so President Trump still won fair and square whether people like it or not. Perhaps rather than whining that Trump won. people should expend their energies on changing the laws befort the next election to get rid of the Electoral College. I would be happy with that.
Beats the hell out of buying a sniper rifle.
Tell that to Americans who endured the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Depression ...... shall i go on John or does that spank your narrative hard enough for you?
You support someone who is either mentally ill or evil to continue on as president of the United States. You are the one with the bad narrative.
I know mentally ill people and i'm not sure Trump is one of them. I am sure that some people here are though. True card carrying, Xanax popping, mentally ill people.
Not that there is anything wrong with that ...... life goes on.
That said, if i would have had to fight my brother in the Civil war ..... i would have been very sad!
if only Trumpp were popping Zanax
Hell, maybe he is ...... i haven't looked into his medicine cabinet. Have you?
I've looked into Trump's eyes. He is insane.
I’ve read many liberals postings here .... many of them are insane
And far right wing fascists here who have no idea of understanding topics and have never graduated the 8th grade are sane?
I’ll put my masters in engineering up against your “intellect” any day there brother/sister
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I’ll put my masters in engineering up against your “intellect” any day there brother/sister
I’m self Fckn Uneducated, feel free to use your “Mastery” to be driving a locomotive over the trax I’ve layed , but I wouldn’t underestimate my self that I un educated without education , cause u will not be happy with the results.
now I feel inclined to inquire, what are your thoughts on that tremendous hoax known as climate change ?
please do Elaborate, cause I’m truly , finally, interested ,
in something you might have to say , so pretty pleas
dont disappoint , I’ve endured enough lately, thznx in advance
I am a male and have earned 2 masters degrees. Wish I could make more money than I spent on them.
It is so much harder on a modern family who has to turn off a tv to avoid listening to President Trump then it was on who families who lost a loved one in Beallau Wood.
Damn straight ..... from a Teufel Hunden ..... just not the WW-1 version .....
How so many
cannot see so much
is what is truly concerning
to so many others, sisters and
brothers, watching alleged adults,
become children, whence observed, is
behavior that is and would normally be that,
of the clan that could support this shell of a "man"
as his actions and destabilized behaviorism, is so truly
concerning and destabilizing in, it should be alarming to one
and all, that when we allow one unstable muther fckr with a mind
so small, what exactly does it say about the entire country, and defenders
of Trumpp...?
For "thinking" individuals, it says we ALL need to be worried about the fate of
our "United" while so Divided State(s).
As Ignorance continues to rule, fools continue to back support a FOOL, who's had a frontal lobotomy and does often drool, over his Air "Conditioned" fans, too gullible to recognize, the scope and size,
of the emptiness behind those iiii's, that can't c, beyond the reflection of an image, they can't, or refuse, to imagine,
asz their imagination is limited to seeing what they wish were true, the lies spouted by Trumpp, where as it is NOT YOUR FAULT, ignorant America, it is the illegals, the poor, the black non whites, the current systems, the EPA, or any other regulatory Administrations, that might regulate silly things like our banking industry, that only a decade ago brought our country, and the world, down to its knees
People see what they wish to SEe, not always what is actually there
and for some of US All
it should matter and we should ALL CARE
DARE some of you to comprehend the reality we as a country now face
,
doubt too many are able or capable to see what is truly occurring
,
and F U wish to disagree, I'm here for a short time, to make you feel just swell, about how your ignorance has become thinking individuals Hell
There will be blood on Trump's hands before this horror show ends.
"there was blood coming out of her eyes, and what/wherever"
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unfortunately Lenny, b leave u r correct
Lenny - sounds like you "might" be suggesting violence.
It is you that has a weapon in your avatar.
Morning Lenny..Very much doubt it...You may think you have the worlds worst President or the best..depends on which side of the fence you sit. There are good and bad leaders and Trump is no where near the worst. You mob get in such hysterics over Politics...Yes all "pig trough pollies" lie..hell that is their trait...they back flip and they put their foot in it. I would not trust them as far as I could throw them. But at the end of the day they are voted in and you just have to make the best of it. He will be gone one day and then the next one will roll up...and the process will start all over again. Don't worry about what the rest of the world thinks..because at the end of the day no one really gives a flying fig. We are all busy getting on living with our "own leaders"...Most people make up their own minds and one person is certainly not the reflection of a whole country...I am sure the American people would not and should not shed blood over any bloody Politician..As at the end of the day, they are simply not worth it.....
Used to have a Brit girlfriend who said "bloody hell" all the time. Kind of miss it now she is gone.
make no mistake, the only blood will be on the hands of those doing the blooding. And they will lose in the end and many moms will suddenly have free basement space
It's not that simplistic. Have owned several homes since I moved out of my parent's basement.
Not unless you're a particularly spoiled and melodramatic 9 year old.
But the grown-ups among us remember children being incinerated inside the World Trade Center, and the Alfred P Murrah building before that.
We remember 10% unemployment and our friends losing their jobs and homes.
The really old among us remember counting days as a nation while our public servants were held hostage, and our military being unable to even land helicopters needed to save them.
So on the whole, a president has a stupid twitter habit doesn't really rise to the level of "saddest time in the last decade".
A sandstorm that downs a few helicopters doesn't come close to a pathological liar as POTUS.
The Saddest Time Ever To Be An American?
I would have thought the Great Depression would qualify more to fit that definition - I think that although John may count himself in as being one of the saddest Americans because Trump is president, I doubt that he will jump out of the window from a high floor as many did back then.
So John, are you competing with this woman - are you sadder than she was?
"Migrant Mother" (Photo by Dorothea Lange)
We have a third of the country right now in thrall to a cult leader who is either mentally ill or evil. This is not a joke or a triviality.
I admit it is hyperbolic to say this is "the saddest time ever to be an American", and it is a conversation piece more than a proof, but I am not apologizing for it. The country is in trouble.
Make that BOTH mentally ill and evil.
What trouble the economy is booming, the wars are ending, illegal immigration is decreasing and life is good? The only bad things are the failure to repeal Obamacare and the deficit. We can work at cutting spending and getting rid of Obamacare if we can get rid of some Rinos.
I have been told that
is not a coc violation or skirting violation.
Now that that has been established by the moderators, I think I will liberally use it in various discussions here.
Oh, by the way, you can't tell someone that they are spouting conspiracy theories, because you will get a coc violation for saying that.